Tag: Theatre
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Commoners Over Kings
Writer and playwright Elise Wien on Kanika Vaish’s “2nd Murderer” at The Flea Theater.
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A Dark Future Now
Brendan McCall reviews Tim Blake Nelson’s newest play And Then We Were No More at La Mama.
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Kristine Haruna Lee’s WAR LESBIAN: the type of theatre that’ll get lodged in yr throat
Jessica Almsay talks to playwright Kristine Haruna Lee about her play WAR LESBIAN, currently running at Dixon Place.
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Class and Expectations in The Assembly’s That Poor Dream
In their play That Poor Dream, which recently concluded a run at the New Ohio Theatre, the downtown theater collective the Assembly freely adapted Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations to bring that classic into the twenty-first century, drawing inspiration from an eclectic list of politically-oriented multimedia along the way. It turns out that Dickens’s work…
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Prelude14: A Curator’s Perspective
Allison Lyman, one of the four PRELUDE.14 curators, discusses putting “care” in “curating.”
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Building A Legacy at Prelude
Hannah Wolf on Prelude
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Togetherness / Aloneness at Prelude 2014
Dan O’Neil on Prelude Festival 2014
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Prelude 2014: An Anonymous Letter
An anonymous writer responds to ideas about Intimacy in the downtown festival
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Words Of Advice to Young People
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak (via Skype) to the Theatre Criticism class at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a lot of fun, they were great kids and asked fantastic questions. A day or two later I got an email with two additional questions from the students:
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Target Margin Theater’s “The Tempest”
Director David Herskovits and performer Steve Rattazzi discuss the company’s imaginative new production of “The Tempest,” opening this week at HERE Arts Center
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Soho Rep Gala
Here’s some shots from tonight’s gala dinner for Soho Rep at The Park in Manhattan. Andy will have the recap in a bit. Edward Norton Steve Buscemi Edward Albee & Marian Seldes More after the jump!
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MI VIDA DESPUÉS de Lola Arias – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seis actores nacidos en la década del setenta y principios del ochenta reconstruyen la juventud de sus padres a partir de fotos, cartas, cintas, ropa usada, relatos, recuerdos borrados. ¿Quiénes eran mis padres cuando yo nací? ¿Cómo era la Argentina cuando yo no sabía hablar? ¿Cuántas versiones existen sobre lo que pasó cuando yo aún…